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Buitenkamp, M. and others Action Plan: Sustainable Netherlands. Amsterdam: Friends of the Earth Netherlands, 1993. 186p.
Explores the practical implications of sustainable development on the national level. Based on the principle that the earth has a limited amount of 'environmental space'.

Canada 21 Council Canada 21: Canada and Common Security in the Twenty-First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for International Studies, 1994. 85p.
Assesses Canada's international policies and the challenges and opportunities presented by increasing globalization. It examines ways to ensure the security of Canadians and others, details choices and identifies policies for managing common security.

Conca, Ken and others, eds. Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Rio. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. 328p.
Examines the competing visions, values, and interests that shape the international environmental debate and sometimes lead to conflict.

Engelman, Robert and Pamela LeRoy Sustaining Water: Population and the Future of Renewable Water Supplies. Washington, D.C.: Population Action International, 1993. 56p.
Examines per capita national water availability and use as indicators for a range of likely economic, social and health risks faced by nations with insufficient fresh water. Includes an index of water scarcity based on data from 149 nations.
Lonergan, Stephen C and Brooks, David B. Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1994. 310p.
Examines the geopolitics of water in the Middle East, the economic importance of water, problems of water supply and water quality and regional conflicts over water.

Sachs, Wolfgang Global Ecology: a New Arena of Political Conflict. London: Zed Books, 1993. 262p.
Exposes for public scrutiny the new language of the rising breed of environmental professionals and the political conflicts and cultural contradictions looming behind the official discourse on global ecology.